Sole tacker



C. F. ZIEGLER.

SQLE TACKER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25. 1920.

Pateilted July 4, 1922.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 41, 1922.

Application filed September 25, 1920. Serial No. 412,742.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. ZIEGLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Sole Tacker, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for forcing'tacks and similar means through seams formed by the upper and other parts of specs, boots, slippers, and other similar artic es.

One of the objects of this invention is to make it easy for the operator to unite or rejoin parted sea-ms.

Another object is to provide means by which one member of a seam can be drawn over to overlap another member in such a seam when such members became parted to such an extent that it would otherwise have been hard to unite or rejoin the members.

Another object is to provide means for guiding a tack from the device to a desired point in the material on which the device is being used.

Other objects will appear from the following description and appended claims as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which The figure is a side elevation of the device, the mouthpiece being illustrated in midsection.

So-called turnsole-rips can easily be repaired, and weakened sewing can easily be reinforced with this device, preparatory to onehalf soling. As is well known in turn shoes the part of the upper that projects beyond the seam that attaches the upper to the sole is very slight. It is now one of the main principles of this invention to provide means by which the upper of such turn-sole shoes can be drawn up and over so that the edge of the upper can be tacked to the sole. With this device. such tacking is accom-- plished by inserting the tack with the device into the shoe, one of the jaws reaching over the outside to clinch the tack into the sole when pressed through the material from the inside.

Tongs are preferably used as the base for this device; havingthe two handles 1 and 2, and the jaw members 3 and e. The handle 1 is preferably constructed to form a member which can be inserted into a table or post or any other similar support, the end 5 being provided with a shoulder ring 6 for a resting support for the device allowing a turning and swinging of the device when so supported. The handle 1 is furthermore provided with a lug 7 to swingably support the handle 8. The handles 1 and 2, and the aw members 3 and 4: are engaging on a common pivot 9 in a scissor-like manner.

The jaw member 3 is provided with means, in the drawing a number of lugs 10 being shown having holes, for forming the guides for the nailing bar or member 11. A. wire or any other similarly suitable member is used for the nailing or tacking member and is operated by the handle 8, the curved form of such a member being preferable to easily reach with such a jaw member (similarlyv curved) into a shoe. A wire is most suitable, having the necessary stiffness for forcing a nail or tack through the material of a shoe and possessing at the same time enough flexibility to easily bend when used in combination with such a curved jaw member. The handle 8 is provided with a short side-extension 12 to givethe necessary movement to the wire 11 while the handle is moved from a point near the handle 1 to a point near the handle 2.

The front end of the jaw member 3 is preferably provided with means for holding a nail 0r tack while the jaw member is inserted into a shoe or similar article so as to bring such a nail or other similar means to a point where it is to be forced into the material.

To simplify the construction of the body or main members of the tongs, it is preferable that to the front end 13 of the jaw member 3 the nailing tip or nozzle 14 be removably engaged, since in this manner the more complicated tip can be made separate from the tongs and finished in a more accurate manner than the tongs.

The tip 14.- is provided with a pointed engaging member 15, and with a bore 16. The bore is large enough to receive a nail or tack, which is forced out of the bore by the wire 11, the wire is therefore preferably proportioned to about the same diameter as the head or larger portion of the nail or tack. The bore 16 must naturally be in alignment with the hole in the last lug or the end of the jaw member 3 to allow the wire to easily slide through the several lugs 10 and tip 14c. A nail 17 is shown disposed in the tip ready to be pushed or forced out by the wire 11. To gu de the nail in a cer tain direction, a spring member 18 is preferably provided near the end of the tip and engaging over the front end of the tip so as to press the nail towards the engaging point 15 of the tip. A cut out 19 is preferably provided in the front end of the spring member so as to prevent the nail from tipping sidewise when pressed out of the tip. As long as the nail is within the tip the spring naturally tends to hold it there, but, as soon as the wire 11 is operated to force the nail out of tip, the spring givesenough that the nail may easily slip out of the tip, as will easily be understood without further illustration or explanation. I

As stated above, the opposite edges in a scam in a shoe become easily separated to such an extent that it is very hard to reunite or overlap the edges enough so that a nail can be forced through the seam, and very often such a seanislips again out of place by the very act of forcing a ,nail through the seam but, with this device, the jaw 3 being inserted into the shoe 'so as to bring .the end of this jaw to near the point where a seam is to 'be reunited or repaired, the pointed engagingfmember 15 of the jaw member 3 is made to engage with the inner member of the seam and then qmovedso as to bring the two members of the seam into overlapping position or into such a relation to one another to allow a rejoining into a proper seam, (in so-called turn-sole shoes, the upper can thus easily be drawn'inwardly to come within the outline of thesole or into such a position to again'properly rest on the sole of the shoe) the tongs are then closed,

' and, when it appears sure ithat'the two members. of the seam are firmly held in proper relation between the two jawmembers of the tongs, the third handle is operated to push the wire 11 forwardly for forcing the nail out of the device through the seam. I-Iav ing a spring member provided on the tip, in the manner the nailis forced through :the seam near the pointed engaging member-15 of the devic Having thus described my invention, '1 claim: i

1. In a sole tacking device, in combination with tongs having a longitudinal passage ,in the front end of one of the jaw members for receiving and guiding nails to a certain point against the opposite'jaw member, the

described above, assures that hollow aw member having a notched termination in alignment wlth the passage through the jaw member to guide a nail from the passage in a certain direction started by the passage. I

2. In a sole tacking device, in combination with tongs having a longitudinal passage in the front end of one of the jaw members for receiving and guiding nails to a certain point against the opposite jaw member, the hollow jaw member having a form to reach into a shoe to allow a placing of a tack through a seam in the direction from the inside of the shoe towards the outside, an engaging member at the end of the hollow jaw member extending beyond the front end ofthej aw member parallel with the longitudinal axis of the passagethrough the j aw member, and a spring guiding member at the endof said hollow jaw member having a notched termination in alignment with the passage through the jaw memberto guide a nail from the passage and beyond the passage in a certain direction in alignment with the passage. V

V 3. In a sole tacking device, in combination with tongs having'a longitudinal passage in the-front end of one of the jaw members for receiving and guiding nails to a certain point of the opposite jaw"member, the hollow jaw member having a form to reach into a shoe to allow a placing of a tack through a seam in the direction from the inside of the shoe towards the-outside, an engaging member at the end of the hollow jaw member extending beyond the front end of the jaw member parallel with the longitudinal axis of the passage through the aw member to determine the position of the nail to be discharged in a seam on which the device is used'before the nail is driven.

Intestimony that I' claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRED STROHMENGER, GEORGE vBrass MORGAN. 

